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minus-squareTurboWafflz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoYou know how sometimes old documents would reuse paper by turning it sideways and writing perpendicularly on top of the old writing? Let’s make a window manager that does that, overlap the contents of all your windows at different angles
minus-squaredukk@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoIt’s surprisingly possible (and easy) too… a little bit of tinkering with X11’s compositor API would probably do the trick. IDK about Wayland tho :/
minus-square𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoYou could do it in Wayland, too, it’s just that every single Wayland app would have to re-implement the rotation and rendering themselves.
minus-squareAVincentInSpace@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoWayfire seems perfectly capable of rotating apps without them being aware of it
You know how sometimes old documents would reuse paper by turning it sideways and writing perpendicularly on top of the old writing? Let’s make a window manager that does that, overlap the contents of all your windows at different angles
It’s surprisingly possible (and easy) too… a little bit of tinkering with X11’s compositor API would probably do the trick.
IDK about Wayland tho :/
You could do it in Wayland, too, it’s just that every single Wayland app would have to re-implement the rotation and rendering themselves.
Wayfire seems perfectly capable of rotating apps without them being aware of it